Category: Procurement

  • References, Interviews & Site Visits

    References, interviews and site visits as award criteria It is not uncommon for contracting authorities to list references, interviews and/or site visits as award criteria. Based on the case law and general principles stated above, references, interviews and site visits may all easily be linked to the subject matter of the contract and may well…

  • Instructions for Evaluators

    Instructions for Evaluators

    The evaluation panel may be new to participating in tender exercises you should provide instructions for evaluators Each evaluator must carry out an independent evaluation. Individual scores will then be reviewed and debated as a panel. Either a consensus will be arrived at or panel members will be asked to carry out a ‘second pass’…

  • Procurement Jobs

    Procurement Jobs & how to get one! Procurement professionals older than millennial’s most likely fell into the job by accident. Back then procurement was probably known as purchasing and it’s not glamorous enough to be on the ideal job list. In recent years the profession has grown and actually it is a very good profession that…

  • Scoring Savings in a Tender

    I personally prefer the relative method of scoring price but an alternative might be scoring savings Scoring savings An alternative to scoring price is to award marks for the savings that bidders’ propose on the current cost of the services. In the following example, the cost of the current service is £1 million. The contracting…